NASCAR Star Kurt Busch Worries About the Chaos Rain Can Bring at Daytona Road Course

Kurt Busch, the 2004 NASCAR cup series champion is quite excited about the 1st Daytona Road Course race. The Chip Ganassi driver has one triumph on a road course. It was the 2011 Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Sonova.

This will be the main Cup Series road course race of the 2020 season. Although, at this point in a typical Cup Series plan, the arrangement would have just hustled at Watkins Glen and Sonoma. Both of those tracks lost this present season’s race dates after the COVID-19 pandemic. Road-course races have commonly been considered “Wild Card” races, where anyone can possibly win.

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Kurt Busch believes this could be a wild card race

NASCAR reports, “I think the fun-factor this weekend has got everybody’s anxiety-level up; but also the challenge that’s right in front of us because it’s basically a wild card-style race, where you could see a driver and a team that don’t normally make the playoffs, punch their ticket,” said Kurt Busch.

Daytona Road Course is the venue for the 24 Hours of Daytona for the Rolex Sports Car Series. The race happens in late January.

NASCAR takes to the altered street course at Daytona this end of the week for what clearly will be an interesting, uncommon experience for many drivers who have just raced it on the simulator. There will be no practice or qualifying for the race.

The format during the current weekend race will be somewhat not quite the same as the Rolex. NASCAR included a chicane at the exit of Turn 4. It will be another passing zone. Although, it will be one more opportunity for the drivers to mess up. This additional bend guarantees that no driver in the field has driven real laps on this modified course.

Kyle Busch (Cup) and AJ Allmendinger (Xfinity) will have an edge going to Daytona. Both ran the Rolex 24 in January. It was Busch’s first race at the Daytona Road Course. While it was Allmendinger’s fourteenth entry on the occasion.

Jimmie Johnson, McDowell, and Kurt Busch are among the drivers with multiple Rolex entries.